Search results for "Chet Baker"

Chet Baker (with Phil Urso): To Mickey's Memory (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

Chet Baker's collaborations with Gerry Mulligan made jazz history. Baker's work with pianist Russ Freeman also are w...

Chet Baker: Look for the Silver Lining (1954) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

  Chet Baker, artwork by Michael Symonds Chet Baker was to singing what Marilyn Monroe was to acting...

Chet Baker: Stella by Starlight (Tokyo 1987) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 29, 07

Some people will tell you Chet Baker never could do much on the trumpet. David Thomson, in one of the most wronghead...

Chet Baker: Winter Wonderland (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

For calling birds, a trumpet is the most reliable instrument. Especially if the trumpeter looks like jazz's James Dea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

Chet Baker & Russ Freeman: Love Nest (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

On radio during the 1940s and TV in the '50s, comedians Burns & Allen closed each show with cigar-toting George telli...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Chet Baker: But Not For Me (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 29, 07

The late Richard Bock, who produced this recording (and so many other classic West Coast jazz sessions) once confided...

Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine (1952) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Trumpeter Chet Baker was and will forever be the poster boy for West Coast cool jazz. His introverted, plaintive tone...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

                 Trumpeter by...

Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker: Bernie's Tune (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

In Los Angeles during the summer of 1952, transplanted New Yorker Gerry Mulligan inaugurated a new era of West Coast ...

Chet Baker: Lady Bird (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Chet Baker's catalog is frustratingly inconsistent. On certain dates the trumpeter sounds brilliant, sharp and invent...

Chet Baker: There Will Never Be Another You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 05, 07

With jazz performers, we crave the person behind the persona. Usually what you see is what you get. Sometimes, though...

Chet Baker: Summer Sketch (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Not to be mistaken for The Rippingtons’ guitarist of the same name, pianist Russ Freeman was a mainstay of 1950s Wes...

Gerry Mulligan: My Funny Valentine (1953) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

While Chet Baker was widely known for his vocal versions of "My Funny Valentine," he first recorded the song as a tru...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Gerry Mulligan: Jeru (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

Gerry Mulligan's immense talent as a performer, composer and arranger were so significantly impressive throughout the...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

                   Gerry Mulligan, ...

John Proulx: Let's Get Lost (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 05, 09

Chet Baker may have sold boxcars of records as a vocalist, but that didn't prevent him from getting dissed by hostile...

Chet Baker & Art Pepper: Picture of Heath (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Chet Baker came to prominence as the trumpeter in the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, but later became a much-recorded leader...

Chet Baker: You Can't Go Home Again (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

  Chet Baker, artwork by Michael Symonds Don Sebesky takes composer credit here – and also handles a...

Chet Baker: The Night We Called It A Day (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 21, 08

In such an intimate setting, Chet Baker's vocals are hauntingly beautiful. This late release of a session during Bake...

Jim Hall: Two's Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 21, 08

Jim Hall's "Two's Blues" is an excellent display of the guitarist's improvisational abilities and his rhythm section'...

Hilde Hefte: Just Friends (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 31, 08

Few figures in jazz have generated as much controversy as Chet Baker. Occasionally reviled for his drug use and dismi...

Jim Hall: Concierto de Aranjuez (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Jim Hall’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” unites three of the purest melodists in jazz in Baker, Desmond, and the guitarist ...

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